Saturday, August 25, 2012

SENATE OVERVIEW POSTSCRIPT

Of course Todd Akin’s “rape” comments
change everything. If he stays in the
race, Claire McCaskill will win. It turns out I was wrong. I figure she pumped up
Akin’s candidacy because he knew he was likely to say something stupid and offensive
like this. In retrospect, running ads
attacking him while the Republican primary was still going on was a very clever strategy. McCaskill as Brer Rabbit, “Don’t throw me in
the briar patch” “Don’t give me Todd Akin as an opponent”

This doesn’t change my
opinion of McCaskill however. And if the
Republicans can get Akin out of the race, replace him with another candidate, the
balance will change once again.